How to know when a Holstein steer is ready to be processed?

we do not "finish" our steers. They are usually on pasture/hay and some grain (4-6 pounds)till the day the processor arrives.
I didn't tape the last two I did but got around 650 pounds hanging on each.

__________________
Deja Moo; The feeling I've heard this bull before.

I can't speak from experience, but I suspect your steer will hear (smell) the processor truck arrive, perhaps changing the texture of the meat. If this is the case, can you have the processor stop about a mile down the road, call, you pop the steer when its head is in a feed bucket?

I once took a yearling bull calf to a processor for someone. He absolutely, positively refused to leave the trailer. Had to be roped and pulled off.

I walked the last three right out to the spot the guys wanted for hooking him up to the winch.

__________________
Deja Moo; The feeling I've heard this bull before.